Mars—As You’ve Never Seen It

The Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey spacecraft are currently in orbit around the Red Planet, returning data that changes our understanding of Mars and its capacity for life. View images of the planet with unprecedented detail that tell the story of its water-rich Martian past and its wind-sculpted present—images that compel us to return and guide plans for future exploration.

Presenter: Martha S. Gilmore, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, funded by NASA to develop smarter rovers to investigate Mars and to select a landing site for the 2003 mission